Thursday, October 22, 2015

“Frank Lloyd Wright inspected the construction of the...

"Frank Lloyd Wright inspected the construction of the @guggenheim on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Sam Falk, a @nytimes photographer, took this photo just over two years before the museum opened to the public. The @nytimes critic who wrote about the opening, which was 56 years ago this week, could not conceal his feelings: "The Solomon F. #Guggenheim Museum … is a war between architecture and painting in which both came out badly maimed," he wrote. He went on to say, "Unfortunately the pictures disfigure the building and the building disfigures the pictures." #tbt #FrankLloydWright" By nytimes on Instagram.